Sermons on Passages front the Prophets. Vol. I. By the
late Rev. J. M. Neale, D.D., Founder and First Chaplain of St. Margaret's, East
Grinstead. (J. T. Hayes.)—These sermons were all addressed to the community of Anglican Sisters founded by the late Dr. Neale. We took up the volume with interest, as one that would disclose the thoughts of a good and earnest man on the subject of Sisterhoods—one of some interest at the present day—but have to confess that we read it with very painful feelings. A doctrine, which we hold to be most perverse and fatal, is persistently enforced in these sermons,—the doctrine that those who have taken "vows of chastity" stand in an entirely different relation to Christ from that in which ordinary men and women stand to Him. Dr. Neale's method of interpreting the Prophets is of that fanciful and artificial kind which finds whatever it likes in any given text.
The Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A., has edited, for the Syndics of the University Press, the Gospel according to St. John, in the Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions, Synoptically Arranged, with Collations Exhibiting all the Readings of all the MSS. (Cambridge University Press.)
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